Remainders: Obama’s “quiet revolution” in education

by Elizabeth Green, at 7:54 pm

Rahm Emanuel says Arne Duncan is leading a “quiet revolution” in education reform.
After an interview with Randi Weingarten, Sawchuck calls her Henry James-like.
Today’s emergency PEP meeting was a perfect example of rubber-stampedness.
Parent leader Lisa Donlan says of governance: “Ultimately we get the government we deserve.”
Columbia Journalism School students will cover charter schools in a major way this summer.
NYC Educator, on Regents-grading: Try “to make them pass by any means necessary.”
A report on the state of arts education included the game “Name that instrument.”
A Chicago charter school’s teachers voted to join the teachers union.
Michigan State is getting a grant to teach education researchers economics.
LA Unified will hire no Teach For America members in the fall. (Via Amy Fagan.)
And Bronx students made a documentary showing how they use low-cost laptops:

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12 NYC schools on @Newsweek's list of best 1,000 American high schools (not the same as last week's list): http://t.co/1tqx9o2C 12 hrs ago
Dennis Walcott runs, sings in a church choir, and makes the week's meals on Sundays: "I can do everything except sew." http://t.co/vVOBRp5G 16 hrs ago
@JBrownDPost: surprised to see that federal gov. doesn't have a way of deciding "what worked" for the SIG schools over 3 yrs process. #EWA12 1 day ago
.@tkonz: Of 18 SIG schools, only about 4 teachers were recruited from strong schools because they "wanted to be part of a big change" #EWA12 1 day ago
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